According to his attorney, one of the men “speaking truth to power” on Benghazi (Gregory Hicks) is a registered Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary, then later voted for Barack Obama. Twice.
And why wouldn’t he be? He was the deputy chief of mission in Libya before Chris Stevens was executed by terrorists at which point he became the chief of mission. You’d expect him to be a Democrat.
Hick’s attorney Victoria Toensing, shared those details in an interview with NBC News, set to air before the hearings took place last week, but NBC was more interested in selling a partisan spin and spiked that part of the story.
This is not surprising but it begs some further consideration.
GraniteGrok- October 10th 2012
The disaster that is the Benghazi attack is an epic failure precipitated by documented intentional acts by the Obama Administration and State, which make them responsible for the killings of four Americans and the cover up. I can’t see HillBilly letting the Obama’s tarnish their place in eternity, but that is going to be hard to avoid.
Someone knew about the potential threats and covered it up. They knew about the risks and pulled back security anyway. They ignored repeated requests for more security, and when their actions resulted in four dead Americans, at the hands of “they are on their heels” al Qaeda on the anniversary of 9/11 the Administration went on a two -week long, thoroughly documented cover-up–aided and abetted by their media allies, strictly for political reasons.
This isn’t a stained blue dress and it isn’t fast and furious. It is much more public. Everyone knows about the event and the way the Democrat establishment water-boarded their own stories as part of the ongoing cover-up. This cannot be disguised as some conspiracy theory. Americans died – Obama lied. So someone has to swing and I can’t see Clinton taking the fall, or taking it alone.
The points worth noting.
First, the media covered the crap out of the cover up. The two-week long, thoroughly documented cover up was on full rotation at CNN and MSNBC, and made the nightly news nightly. Even low information voters know about the “protest gone bad story” and the White House, press-driven “YouTube Video” excuse. A few less know about the back-tracking later on but they know the ambassador and other died and that a YouTube video was blamed for weeks on end at every opportunity.
A few less may know the video’s creator was arrested and detained.
Who reclls the sudden and unexpected resignation (timely dismissal) of then CIA director Petraeus over an infidelity scandal?
Even fewer still will remember that US legislators were publicly prepared to limit free speech in response to the YouTube Video lie.
So how many remember this?
Clinton biographer Ed Klein on Friday (10-12-12) reported that Bill Clinton, sensing Obama’s political team wants to pin legal and political blame on the State Department and Hillary Clinton, has been working on doomsday and contingency scenarios “to avoid having Benghazi become a stain on her political fortunes should she decide to run for president in 2016.”
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According to Klein’s sources, Bill Clinton has assembled an informal legal team in case there are cables or other evidence that would legally implicate Hillary. Klein also told The Daily Caller that Bill has even considered advising Hillary to resign if the Obama administration tries to make her the “scapegoat.
If it becomes apparent that Bill’s legacy is in danger as a result of Hillary’s complicity (that is too polite; guilt is a better word) in Benghazi it will be interesting to see what the assembled legal team comes up with as an escape route for the Clinton’s. Resigning is no longer an adequate solution for Hillary, she has done that. If Hillary could lose any chance at a run for the White House because of this (and she should be done alrady but this is modern American Democrat politics so that’s no guarantee), you can bet Bill and his legal team will happily pull Obama off his little pedestal with this or any other scandle(s) they can pin on him if needed.
In a battle between Bill and Obama, in Bill’s mind at least, Obama and his legacy are very expendable.
So the real question becomes….in any…domestic contingency operation…between the Clinton Machine and the Obama Zombies…which side does NBC take and do they willingly admit that the enemy combatants are all Democrats?
